Installing malicious ‘RTO app' costs trader 34L
adodara: A city businessman lost Rs 34.75 lakhs after installing a malicious app, which was disguised as an app for payment of e-challans to the Regional Transport Office (RTO).
An unknown sender sent him a download link for the malicious app on WhatsApp.
Deepak Thakkar, who runs an electronics showroom, filed a complaint for fraud at Cyber Crime police station in the city.
Thakkar said he received a message on July 9 from an unidentified number. The message contained a file called RTO e-challan.apk and he thought it was related to e-challans issued by the RTO. Thakkar downloaded the file and installed it on his phone.
The next day, several transactions occurred from three of his bank accounts, with lakhs of rupees being transferred to various bank accounts. In two days, over Rs 39 lakh was siphoned off, of which one transaction, for Rs 4.9 lakh, was reversed with the money being credited back to his account.
Thakkar immediately approached police and informed them about the fraud. According to police, the malicious app allowed the criminals to steal Thakkar's passwords and PIN numbers. Thakkar later uninstalled the app. Police are now trying to track down the perpetrators using the money trail.
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